Swindon Festival Of Literature : Kate Pickett

The Good Society, and how we make it – with KATE PICKETT

How do we provide education that allows every child to flourish? How do we make sure that everyone has good health care? How do we ensure safety, justice, and a sustainable environment for all? Any more questions?

Social scientist, co-founder of the Equality Trust, Professor of Epidemiology at the University of York, and co-author of international bestseller The Spirit Level, Kate Pickett OBE has some answers.

In her latest book, The Good Society, Kate shows that to make a good society – in which everyone has what they need in order to be as well as they might be - we must prioritise the health, care, and education of those who have the least and suffer the most. This means confronting once and for all the fundamental problems of inequality.